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THE HELMSMAN IN A FOG AT SEA!
"The Nantucet.was not visibie 'except immediately' before the collision,
the fog being.heavy near the water. The Monroe was strick on the star
board side; the Nantu'cket penetrating the Monroe something like one-third
of her width, hiakiiig The sinking of, the Monroe inevitable." Cape. John-,
son, whose ship went do wn with 49 people in ocean's latest disaster.